Since 2003, the TERRA scientific network has developed research in the humanities, in the modern sense (arts, humanities and social sciences), on the the field of forced migrations, refugees, asylum law, life in exile, the place of foreigners in society ... and, consequently, cultural relations to otherness, so-called issues of race, class, gender, age and other conditions or "identities" (real, perceived or imputed), as well as on the subjects at the intersection of these issues, the forms of rejection and symbolic and political domination, and the resulting inequalities and exit policies .